For Approval: GPLv3

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 9/1/07, David K. Gasaway <dave at gasaway.org> wrote:
> On 1 Sep 2007 at 23:12, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>
> > Just trying to grasp how my work dedicate to public domain could
> > possibly fall under the GPL if included in GPL "work as whole".
> > "System libraries" exception aside.
>
> Your work is public domain, i.e., you've already asserted that any
> possible use of your work is permissible.  You can't possibly care how
> GPL software interacts with your work.

I don't care how GPL software interacts with my work. Interact all the
ways you want. I just can't grasp how that wonderful "pure copyright
license" ("sublicensing is not allowed ... the recipient automatically
receives a license from the original licensors") could possibly apply
to work in which rights under copyright were simply completely
waived/abandoned by the copyright owner. Once you resolve that problem
regarding public domain, think of the case when "a license from the
original licensors" is BSDL or something else non-GPL. Pigs can fly in
the GNU Republic, right?

regards,
alexander.

P.S. http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/Stealing_Versus_Sharing_Code